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October 19, 2021Keeping Astronauts Safe While They Explore Other Worlds – FSGC fellow Perla Latorre-Suarez
Keeping Astronauts Safe While They Explore Other Worlds UCF graduate student and FSGC fellow Perla Latorre-Suarez ’21 is investigating 3-D printed sensors that could help monitor and alert astronauts to problems during space missions. Read more at https://www.ucf.edu/news/keeping-astronauts-safe-while-they-explore-other-worlds/
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March 12, 2021
Students from ERAU and other univ. team up with NASA to tests tools for Artemis
Twenty schools were selected by NASA to proceed to testing of their solutions to various challenges in 2020. One of the teams selected was Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Spacesuit Utilization of Innovative Technology (SUIT) laboratory, which developed the Artemis Regolith Receptacle for Contingency Handheld Extraction and Return (ARRCHER). This team was partially supported by FSGC. Read..
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July 16, 2020
NASA and UCF Collaborate to Develop New High Temperature Powder Coating through FSGC award
NASA and UCF Collaborate to Develop New High Temperature Powder Coating. This feature article was released on July/August 2020 Issue of the professional magazine, Powder Coating Tough . This was the result of an FSGC grant to Dr. Jihua Gou at the University of Central Florida under the FSGC-KSC Technology Development Program. Featured Research on..
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October 2, 2019
2015 FSGC Fellow Nichole Ternan – Using Plumeria Pollination to Engage Student Scientists
Using Plumeria Pollination to Engage Student Scientists By Nichole Tiernan (Florida International University and Fairchild Botanical Gardens) – 2015 FSGC Fellow Nichole Tiernan article
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August 13, 2019
Outstanding ERAU Researcher of the Year Wins $1.3M NASA Award
In summer 2021, Embry-Riddle’s Dr. Aroh Barjatya and his students will launch two identical rockets from tiny Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, northeast of Papua New Guinea, thanks to a new $1.3 million NASA research award. “End-to-end testing was the overall goal to ensure that a CubeSat operates and functions properly in the space..
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June 3, 2019
FSGC Fellows part of a UCF Team Discovery that Could Allow Travel from Coast to Coast in Under 30 Minutes
2 FSGC fellows from the University of Central Florida, Jonathan Sosa and Jessica Chambers, are part of a team under the leadership of Dr. Kareem Ahmed, have made a discovery that could allow travel from Coast to Coats in under 30 minutes. Dr. Kareem Ahmed, the students advisor remarked ” The FSGC DIF fellowships significantly..
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March 27, 2019
Analyzing the Risks of Space Radiation – FSGC Sponsored research at FIT
Analyzing the Risks of Space Radiation As space tourism inches toward reality, and with a push for humans to reach Mars by 2030, health concerns for this growing number of would-be astronauts are increasingly relevant. Florida Tech College of Engineering and Science professors Kenia Pedrosa Nunes and Kunal Mitra are investigating the effect of space..
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November 19, 2018
Florida Poly students identify new way to create oxygen in space
Florida Poly students identify new way to create oxygen in space Janelle Irwin Taylor Florida Politics Florida Polytechnic University researchers are working on a breakthrough technology that could simplify the way oxygen is created for such travel. Student researchers and faculty are exploring ways to use algae to capture carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. The technology would..
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September 27, 2018
Novel Materials for Building on Mars- FSGC funded project
Novel Materials for Building on Mars – Univ. of Miami, College of Engineering. Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has been the subject of fiction, scientific research and engineering since the 1800s. It is the most accessible place for life other than on Earth, making it a scientifically interesting location in our solar system...
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March 27, 2018
For Spacesuit Designers, 3-D Beats 2-D – FSGC funded project (AirSpace Magazine)
For Spacesuit Designers, 3-D Beats 2-D Motion capture software may help engineers improve outerwear for astronauts. By Danielle Rosales airspacemag.com March 26, 2018 10:23AM No astronaut would dare venture out into the vacuum of space without the protection of a spacesuit. But that’s not to say the bulky garments are comfortable, or that they don’t..
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February 13, 2018
Rocket rumbles give volcanic insights – FSGC funded project (BBC News)
Rocket rumbles give volcanic insights By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, New Orleans What do volcanoes and rockets have in common? “Volcanoes have a nozzle aimed at the sky, and rockets have a nozzle aimed at the ground,” explains Steve McNutt, a geosciences professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. It explains why..
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February 13, 2018
Florida Polytechnic student working to improve lives for astronauts in space
Florida Polytechnic student working to improve lives for astronauts in space A Florida Polytechnic University student is working to reduce depression and anxiety amongst astronauts in space. Student designing sensors for astronaut spacesuits Goal is to make missions in space more enjoyable Project funded through NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium James Holland and his professor,..
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February 5, 2018
Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ. Students Researching New Planets and Ages of Stars
Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ. Students Researching New Planets and Ages of Stars Patrice Majewski remembers her mom waking her up as a child at 3 a.m. to lie on the front lawn and watch meteor showers. Looking up to the skies in Palm Coast, Fla., to see shuttle launches was also a regular occurrence. Alexander..
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October 10, 2017
The Power Source of the Future: Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters – Univ. of Miami
The Power Source of the Future: Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters NASA’s Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) awarded Celik scholarship money for two undergraduate students to investigate the additive manufacturing – more commonly known as 3-D printing – of thermoelectric modules and generators. “3-D printing of thermoelectric generators allows us to fabricate and print all the complex..
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August 29, 2016
Despite setbacks, Florida International University students’ satellite destined for space
Despite setbacks, Florida International University students’ satellite destined for space A team of mechanical engineering students designed and created a satellite that won a NASA-sponsored competition, and as a result, will launch into space in about two years. But the journey to the great beyond, once complete, would have taken nearly a decade to realize...